Archive for January, 2008
‘Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer’ Movie Trailer & Poster
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is the name and it debuted at Slamdance, the even more-indie version of Sundance. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to catch a screening of it yet, but I’ve heard from numerous people that I trust that it kicks some serious ass. All you need to know before watching this trailer is the title - Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. I have a good feeling this is going to be a huge cult hit, but I can’t say just yet. Either way, you need to watch this trailer, don’t even ask any more questions.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer was also the first purchase from Slamdance this year. Anchor Bay Entertainment has picked up the film for a mid-six figures deal. They’re also promising a theatrical commitment, meaning you’ll actually get to see this bad boy in theaters.
Source: brookstreetpictures.com
Watch ’Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer’ movie trailer after jump
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Ledger’s funeral arrangements a mystery
Details about funeral arrangements for actor Heath Ledger remained secret as his body was taken from a Manhattan funeral home.
Ledger’s publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said Friday the arrangements “will continue to be kept private at the family’s request.”
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said his government would do whatever was needed to help the family bring back the 28-year-old Ledger’s body to Australia.
His body was moved from the police-barricaded funeral home amid a swarm of cameras and reporters at about 4 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile, police insisted they have no interest in interviewing actress Mary-Kate Olsen, who was the first person a masseuse called after finding an unresponsive Ledger in a Manhattan apartment Tuesday.
In her first comment since the Australian-born actor’s death, Olsen issued a statement that read: “Heath was a friend. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts are with his family during this very difficult time.”
Police said the masseuse who found Ledger’s body spent nine minutes making three calls to the “Full House” actress before dialing 911 for help, then called Olsen a fourth time after paramedics arrived. At some point during the flurry of calls, Olsen, who was in California, summoned her personal security guards to the apartment to help, police said.
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Hilton’s singing defended by movie colleagues
Paris Hilton’s singing abilities have been praised by the choreographer of her new movie.
The socialite, whose debut album Paris failed to impress critics in 2006, has tried her hand at singing again in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
“I was surprised that she could sing,” choreographer Tre Armstrong told OK! magazine. “Honest to God, I will never crack on Paris. I haven’t. From what I hear from what they did, I like how she sounded.”
R&B singer Keyshia Cole, who stars alongside Hilton in the film, added: “I like the way she sings. I do.”
The rock musical movie will be released in the US in April.
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Lionsgate, New Line, Slayer - Trade Breaks
“Both Lionsgate and Marvel Studios have reached interim agreements the Writers Guild of America. These deals mean that both studios will put writers immediately back to work on their development slates. Terms of the agreements were not disclosed, but shows such as “Weeds” and “Mad Men” along with films like “Saw V,” “Thor” and “Captain America”…”
Full Story: Variety
Contrary to previous reports on IMDB there is “no truth” to the rumor that New Line Cinema’s Bob Shaye & Michael Lynne were being sacked, and all projects, including The Hobbit were moving completely over to the Warner Bros. camps. A New Line spokesperson stated via email to us today that the story was false, and they are seeking a correction on IMDB…”
Full story: The One Ring
Anchor Bay Entertainment has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Jon Knautz’s horror comedy “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” in a mid-six-figure deal with a theatrical commitment. The film (featuring “Nightmare on Elm Street” star Robert Englund) tells the story of a teen (Trevor Matthews) who is haunted by the murder of his parents. As his rage builds, he accidentally awakens an ancient evil, prompting chaos in the vein of ’80s horror-comedy creature features…”
Full story: Hollywood Reporter
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All blood, no guts for ‘Rambo’
As he did with Rocky Balboa in 2006, Sylvester Stallone has resurrected his dejected Vietnam vet John Rambo for one final screen adventure. But where Rambo was once a macho symbol of 1980s excess, mowing down bad dudes in an over-the-top, comic book fashion, this Rambo — paunchy, sullen and prone to uttering fatalist statements like “(bleep) the world” — bares little resemblance to the sweat-drenched, shirtless superhero of yore. This Rambo — he introduces himself as “John” — is a hulking mass of once-toned muscle hiding beneath an oversize T-shirt, his face an aging, sorrowful slab of melting clay.
And once the violence starts — oh yes, there will be blood, as well as severed limbs, spilled guts and grisly decapitations — there’s no sheath of patriotism for the audience to hide behind. It’s brutal, unsettling and appalling.
“Rambo” opens in Thailand, with Rambo collecting cobras for an underground snake-fighting ring. (That can’t pay well.) He’s hired to guide a group of American missionaries to Burma, where they’ll bring aid to the citizens of the war-torn country. But when they’re captured by soldiers and held captive, it’s up to you-know-who to bring them back.
Stallone co-wrote and directed “Rambo,” and its early scenes pick up where 1982’s “First Blood” left off. Rambo is more of a character here than he was in “First Blood’s” bloated sequels, and the years of wear on his used tire of a mug speak volumes about Rambo’s life since we last left him 20 years ago.
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Michael Moore is Mad as Hell About Documentaries…
Michael Moore is mad as hell about documentaries and foreign films being crowded out of theaters, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
“My new year’s resolution is to sit down with the heads of exhibition chains and have them devote one screen in their multiplexes to nonfiction and foreign films,” Moore said. He said he’s spoken with fellow docu directors to join him in the initiative, including board members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary branch, though it is unclear if AMPAS would be officially involved.
The director of four of the 12 top-grossing docus of all time — “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “Roger & Me,” the Oscar-winning “Bowling for Columbine” and the just-announced Oscar nominee “Sicko” — wants to use his influence with exhibitors to make this happen. “If not me, then who?” he said. “I’m the one who got through the door.”
Moore’s motivation is the declining box-office performance of indie films last year, in which many were taken out of theaters before they had a chance to grow word-of-mouth business. He said it’s an extension of his work promoting fellow indie filmmakers at his annual Traverse City Film Festival.
“People want to see documentaries, but there’s a disconnect between that desire and the exhibitors out there,” added Moore, who has been planning the initiative for several months. “We’re not asking for charity,” he said.
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First Movie Stills from ‘Quantum of Solace’ & Synopsis
The first ’James Bond: Quantum Of Solace’ images have been released, including character shots of Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Olga Kurylenko, Judi Dench and Jeffrey Wright.
Columbia Pictures even released an official synopsis: ’Quantum Of Solace’ continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (Craig) in ’Casino Royale’.
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Dench) interrogate Mr White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (Kurylenko), a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (Amalric), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organization.
Olga Kurylenko
See the other pics HERE
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